- The Defense has been exposed They arent really built to go against fast teams like the Oil or Avs unless the refs call the playoff games by playoff rules. Seems like thats not the case anymore. If Tanev is the lynch pin to the whole house of cards there is a problem. He usually is injured every season. I love the guy but you cant build a D around players with that kind of injury history. They need an additional solid top d man that can skate so Tanev doesnt have to be the guy. Doesn't look like Hannifin is it.
- Markstrom has more demons in his head than Mike Smith. Dont even know what to do about it. He is getting better but still we need more 10 bell saves out of him.
- The Offence is playing the perimeter so all teams have to do is just clog the middle and the Flames have very little answer outside of Backlund. They caught teams cheating for offence all season because they were always ahead due to fast starts. When teams actually weather the early storm and get setup in the D zone the Flames have a really hard time to score. Teams such as Dallas and NSh that dont cheat for offence you could see them exploit this classic Flames weakness of having very little net front presence. Doesn't take rocket science to know a better team could exploit that even more. I just didn't believe the Oilers would actually put it all together though.
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